On January 23, 2013 from 12 – 1 pm ET, the GHKC hosted a webinar on “Best Practices for Creating and Sustaining Communities of Practice for Global Health.”

Panelists presented some best practices involved in creating and sustaining communities of practice (CoPs) to address the “knowledge to practice” gap.

Topics included:
• The use of several diverse communities of practice for global health
• How CoPs have been used as a cost-effective knowledge management tool
• Solutions and challenges they have faced
• Strategies for the development, growth, evaluation and sustainability of CoPs

Panelists included:
• Angela Nash-Mercado, JHU CCP, Knowledge for Health Project
• Rohit Ramaswamy, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill
• Theresa Norton, Jhpiego, Johns Hopkins University
• Sara Holtz, Management Sciences for Health

Link to webinar recording: https://connect.johnshopkins.edu/p818xp7jhc7/

Download the presentation slides: Angela Nash-Mercado (http://knowledge-gateway.org/?0wlgb2fn), Sara Holtz (http://knowledge-gateway.org/?9a0hyccl), Rohit Ramaswamy (http://knowledge-gateway.org/?azy9kqp8), Theresa Norton (http://knowledge-gateway.org/?dsjhqqmk)